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Say what you will about their beginnings, I still think Power Metal is one of their best songs. It's really crazy knowing that the same skinhead growling on Walk was sporting a big feathered haircut and yelping Manowar style back then.

at the time dimebag was shot i worked at a 711 in arlington. a few nights after it happened i was on the register, we were busy, but i noticed some metal looking guys walking around by the beer cooler. they came up to the register and put the beer down, i look up and its fucking phil anselmo. he looked emotionally exhausted, i didnt really know what to say. i just asked if he was who i thought he was (yea, i know), he said 'hi im phil' and put out his hand. we talked about dime, how fucked up things were, things of that nature. it was a really strange way to meet the singer of my favorite fucking band in the world. but it was also a special moment to share with some one. it was weird hearing that song mourn from down 3 and knowing it was about that weekend, having met the dude that wrote the song and seeing how wrecked he was emotionally at the time. i always felt kind of a connection to that song.

as far as meeting the other guys, i met vinnie at a sepultura show once, he was completely tanked. we chatted at the bar for a bit, he was pretty cool. i could have met him again a couple years ago but i left him alone. a friend and i were eating lunch at a restaurant in arlington and got seated at the table behind vinnie and his father. i figured, how often does this guy get to sit there and eat a quiet meal in a quiet restaurant without some asshole bothering him? so i let him be.

met dime once too, that was at a meet and greet at mars music back in the day. obviously he was awesome as fuck when i met him as well. dimebag ruled. RIP \m/

It's one of those moments everyone remembers. I was homeless in California at the time, but I am a Dallas local. I remember a man stumbling down the street with a paper wrapped bottle yelling at the top of his lungs about Dimebag's murder. Most of the people around him had no clue what he was talking about thinking he was just a drunk hobo crying about a dime bag. It was so sad

I saw Pantera live once, but I didn't even really know who they were at the time, unfortunately.

Before they went on, security was giving people grief for stupid shit - a guy got carried out on a stretcher. Godsmack was on and Sully was yelling at security and saying that if they did that while Pantera was on stage they'd get their asses kicked.

Security disappeared. Pantera came on. Little campfires started popping up everywhere around the venue and people had a really good time. No one got hurt.

I was lucky enough to see him perform just a few shows before the one where he was shot. It was unsettling to hear the news a few days later. I almost missed it, too, because my friend had a camera so the bouncer made us go place it in my car, then refused to let us in, because our tickets were already torn. Fucking asshole (and my friend) nearly cost me seeing Dimebag Darrel.

Saw them play Atlanta 2001.. The pyro was so hot you could feel it all over the venue. Thought the Tabernacle was going to burn. There was point when band members from Pantera, Soulfly and Nothingface all did a metal drum circle... Very nice

The thing that always impressed me about Pantera was how fucking tight they were, I wasn't into them while Dime was still here so I never got to see them live but even just watching concert footage they're all just locked in. Vinnie knew exactly what was needed from him for each song, even though some of his drum parts are fucking insane it was never needless showing off and was always rock solid.

While we are on the topic of Vinnie Paul, I went to see Clutch, who for some reason was opening for the band Hellyeah (in my opinion, Clutch is legendary and should open for no band). I have never heard of Hellyeah, but after Clutch finished their set I figured I would stick around and give them a few songs before I left.

Then Vinnie Paul came out and I was like, WTF?! So I googled the band to find out he was the drummer. I got pretty excited about that, until I continued to read and find out their lead singer was the guy from Mudvayne.

I stuck around for about 4 songs before leaving. It saddens me to say it, but they were terrible. Awful. Whoever set up their sound levels must be fucking deaf. You couldn't pick out any of the individual guitars or bass - just a wall of sound. The drums were mic'ed really weird so you pretty much only hear the bass drum and all the others were drowned out by the guitar noise. Of course, the lead singer was turned all the way up and all he does is scream the entire time.

On top of that, their songs were also pretty bad - it sounded like vintage Pantera Vinnie Paul trying to play over shitty Mudvayne songs. The rest of the band was struggling to keep up with him and the lead singer just said, "Fuck it" and decided he was just going to randomly scream and grunt off-time and off-key to everything else.

It was pretty obvious that Vinnie was lost without Dimebag or Phil Anselmo in front of him. I kind of wish I had just left before they started playing.

The thing about Vinnie's drumming is that it's not flashy, nor is it overly technical, but it's a perfect compliment to Rex's bass and Dime's guitar. That was the magic of Pantera. Everything just fucking worked. There was no pretense when it came to Pantera's music.

The reason I think he dominates is because he always played so appropriately for each song. He always added something, unlike so many metal wankers out there who just ruin the song with their "mad skills".

That's really the mark of a great musician. Too many people, especially metalheads, are fascinated with how fast and complex someone can play. They equate that with skill. Chops should be there when the music calls for it, but you don't need to be doing crazy shit all the time to be a great musician. If the music calls for doing crazy shit all day, by all means, do it. But to say someone's not a great drummer because they're not doing that is ignorant.

I didn't even notice this wasn't /r/drums. It basically means Diameter x depth, these are 14x14 15x15 18x18 and 2 24x24. Which means they're deep and loud as shit. 24x24 bass drums won't fit through a normal door frame, if I recall correctly.

I had the pleasure of meeting Vinnie Paul one evening at his strip club in Dallas that he co-owned with his brother at the time. Dimebag wasn't there that night, but a friend of my ran into Mr. Paul. Dudes a fuckin' rockstar, but more in the sense that he had the decency to talk to his fans and that he wasn't in too big of a hurry to appreciate the words of a random person telling him that Pantera was a big part of their lives. I wasn't into Pantera at the time, but that initial meeting turned me on to them. I got a copy of Cowboys from Hell and it was refreshing. I'm sure it was to anyone that heard it and latched on to it as quick as I did.

Fast forward a couple of months later when Dimebag was shot. They held a huge wake outside the strip club for Dimebag and the other people killed in the shooting(I think it was a radio DJ from Dallas). It was horrible and beautiful all at the same time. You just got the feeling that it was all wrong and everyone around me at the time confirmed it. I saw a metalhead, easily over 40 years old with biker leathers and all kinds of patches on just crying his eyes out. That's about the time I lost it too. I felt a little guilty about being sad, like an infiltrator. I felt a little weird about being there seeing as how I'd only heard Pantera for the first time just a couple of months beforehand.

One of the cool things that they did was everyone got to sign their respects on some whiteboard with a sharpie and as far as I know, they hung the whiteboard in the stripclub somewhere. Hah, I think I even saw Jamie Jasta there that night, although I could be wrong.

Anyways, it was extremely tragic and the point of the story is that after meeting Vinnie Paul I couldn't help but thing that this is the last dude that deserved to have his brother taken away. Someone that had done so well for himself while still having his brother be a part of his success only to have him stripped away rather fast by a mentally disturbed fan. Shit never made sense to me but I count myself among the lucky that I got to go to the wake now. I got to help appreciate the legacy that Darrell left behind.

TL;DR: I watched Ceelo get fucked by Adam Levine while Blake Shelton attended to the balls.

my husband and i use to go there after every metal show. got to meet most of slipknot, watched fear factory walk around.... really neat experience.

joey(the little drummer) is seriously tiny, and super nice. mick was covered in women haha. there were others there but those were the two that stood out. joey talked to us for a minute, i think we even bought him a drink.

Every member of Pantera except for Phil came in my store with some roadies while they were on tour. I ended up having to close the store so they could actually shop, as they were mobbed by every metal fan in the place (a Hot Topic). Vinnie and his brother were incredibly nice, but their roadies were absolute dicks and tried to fondle my female staff members while making condescending jokes to the rest of the staff. I ended up sending them to the back room while I finished the sales.

If no one has taken it down yet, a copy of the receipt should still be in the back room of the Huntington, WV Hot Topic.

If you're really interested in meeting him, there's a gentlemens parlor in Dallas, TX called the Clubhouse he has partial ownership of. Hit it on a Friday or Saturday night and there's a good chance you'll see him in there with a few friends and his Drum tech. #fullbodycondom

I went there on a Wedensday a few years ago. It was a bring your own booze full nude strip club. It was like a pantera museum. I bought a few t shirts and they gave me like 5 hell yeah shirts that were too big for me. 2 of them said HELL FUCKING YEAH on the back, my large friends were fighting over them.

Favorite part: standing next to the stage pointing, and saying "haha I can see your butthole". I don't go to strip clubs much.

These are, in fact, female humans in their molting stage. These ones appear to still have both arms attached and, unless this is altered, their hands are also in tact. Looking at their plumage, I'd posit that they are in the final throes of puberty and attention whoring while giggling and saying "um" takes up a majority of their time. You'll know once they reach adulthood when their genitals smell of cinnamon.